Originally Posted by
essxjay
Could you post those websites? I'm curious what the discrepancy is about. Have you called or emailed Customs about it? What was the upshot?
Unless you've determined it to be illegal to import without special permission, declare it simply as 'tea'.
IIRC, it's labelled 'coca tea', so things might get...unpleasant if CPB decides to take a look.
I'd be curious to know if it is actually a prohibited item or if this is just a traveller's rumor. I heard the same thing when I was in Peru.
Similar to this - lived near the northern border for quite a while. I never saw it documented, but rumor has it that it is illegal to bring back more than one large-size bottle of "2-2-2's" (OTC aspirin/acetaminophen/codeine, like a low-grade non-prescription tylenol-3).